For the next few months, it is reasonably reliable that a Snowy Owl will be on the docks at Col. Sam Smith Park. Not guaranteed of course.

Sometimes they will be on a fence post beside a farm field like this one which I found in Quebec last winter.

Sometimes they will be perched on ice:

Here is today’s owl:

Other birds:

MAILBOX

An interesting bit of information about Harriet Tubman (and owls 🦉):

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NATURE POETRY

On the whirl of the bitter gale,
and the northern sleet and snow,
Our flight can pierce the thickest fog,
or the strongest winds that blow.  – Harry R. Peterson, “Song of the Wild Geese,” 1912

Miles Hearn